The Power of the Dog Declared Best Picture by Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been declared Best Picture by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association. The film also won Best Director and Screenplay for Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

BEST PICTURE
The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: Belfast (2), King Richard (3), West Side Story (4), Licorice Pizza (5), Dune (6), Nightmare Alley (7), The French Dispatch (8), The Lost Daughter (9), and CODA (10)

BEST ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: Will Smith, King Richard (2), Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM! (3), Peter Dinklage, Cyrano (4), and Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth (5)

BEST ACTRESS
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Runners-up: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter (2), Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye (3), Lady Gaga, House of Gucci (4), and Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: Troy Kotsur, CODA (2), Ciaran Hinds, Belfast (3), Ben Affleck, The Tender Bar (4), and Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog (5)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Runners-up: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog (2), Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard (3), Caitriona Balfe, Belfast (4), and Ruth Negga, Passing (5)

BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: Steven Spielberg, West Side Story (2), Kenneth Branagh, Belfast (3), Denis Villeneuve, Dune (4), and Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car
Runners-up: A Hero (2), The Worst Person in the World (3), The Hand of God (4), and Flee (5)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Summer of Soul
Runners-up: Flee (2), The Rescue (3), Procession (4), and Val (5)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Encanto
Runner-up: The Mitchells vs. the Machines

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza and Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Greig Fraser, Dune
Runner-up: Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Hans Zimmer, Dune
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog

RUSSELL SMITH AWARD (best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film)
Flee


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.